you understand how to grieve, how to give solace. i'm human and grieving is a natural part of medicine. as a doctor, grieving is a natural part of medicine. if you deny that, you get into this trap of curing and victory. i think grief is very important. tavis: this is such a fascinating text. let me ask you this as a final question, that is, does the history make you hopeful about the future? >> the history makes me absolutely hopeful about the future. the way that -- and you know what, the one thing that makes me most hopeful is that the history is threaded through with the stories of patients. you discover in the book the stories of patients and the stories of patients are incredibly inspiring and whenever the field of oncology got into a position where it sort of fell into a trap, it was patients and patient advocates working with doctors and scientists who resurrected that and makes me incredibly hopeful about the future. tavis: it is one of the most talked about books of the year. you have to get it, it's called "the emporer of

we grieve for family and friends, i want us to remember who the are. >> authorities are talking about a reconstruction effort of post-war proportions, but the situation could have been so much worse, and that for some is cause for celebration. >> more on that story on the web site, bbc.com. we are focusing on inflation and the soaring price of everyday food stock. key crops have been affected. in india, many people spend over half their income on food, and they have been hit hard by increase in the sale of the onion. how a fivefold increase in the price of chile's is causing great anxiety. >> apprised fruit is an essential ingredient in kitchens. it has prompted the president to urge indonesian's to grow their own to beat inflation. >> that would be a great idea when i went to denmark i saw so many people planting their own food for dinner. >> higher food prices helped push the inflation to almost 7% at the end of last year. the storm ruined crops and hampered supply. analysts believe public anger will not boil over. >> this is something they have been used to. the problem is unless t

when she acknowledged my childhood grieve and offered hope in the form of an apology. thank you. [applause] >> our next reader is grace angel. she is painter, poet and photographer. married and has 2 girls she is an event planner and art's fundraiser. her works have been exhibited in the bay area and international. she's working on poems entitled, from a fanatic heart. grace. written at a time when i'd say was my hungry period. the first is bones. my bones are bleached white under your stare while you warm your hands under my open wounds i swallow the air you exheal and pluck the bones from your rib cage and i will make a man out of you. my bones memorized the weight of your since. they are brittle with forgiveness. my thighs unfold as you press the palm of your hand against my curving spine and plant your bones inside my garden. this one is draft it's the one in thean tholology. he smoothed the wrinkles on my bell and he sucked my bitter fruit. we plowed an ocean in my navel and sowed mountains of regrets into fields. we allowed only the memory of water to sustain our thirst. we

we are brothers and sisters all of them are my children and went to grieve in the privacy of her prayers. we were quiet for sometime, both of us try to break away from the sounds of bombs and the sounds of grieve that accompany the tearing apart of people. 1 from the other. amy broke our silence. what do you mean pieces of your doll. i had 3 dolls all 3 were shanty. all 3 dolls were made of brittle plastic like material we called cutcha caw. they were hollow the different parts of their bodies were hooked with rubber bands. whatever held those 3 parts together they always broke within a few weeks and the dolls continued to exist in their separate components. i suspect my male cousin was the deconductor of the dolls. the grownups promised to reconstruct them but didn't have the time to follow up on their promises or forgot i was carrying around parts of dolls. except one aunt. she screamed every time she saw me carrying the 3 sets of legs and arms and 3 heads 234 thericcety carriage i pushed around. to assure my aunt the dolls were doing well. i would

today is a time to grieve, to mourn, to express sympathy. but unfortunately in the aftermath of this tragedy, too many of the old fights resurfaced. the left blame the right, the right blame the left. everybody blame the media. op eds were written and bills were introduced. but, madam speaker, none of that will bring back those who were lost. none that have will put a 9-year-old girl back at the breakfast table where she belongs. like many of my colleagues on monday i participated in a national moment of silence. the best thing about that moment was that for just a minute or two the noise stopped. we paused and we reflected. and i hope that we can do more of that in the months and years ahead. thank you, madam speaker, i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. lungren: madam speaker, it is my pleasure now to yield two minutes to the gentleman who has returned from new mexico, mr. pearce. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new mexico, mr. pearce, is recognized

the president gives a powerful address to a grieving nation remembering the victims of saturday's shooting and challenging the country to live up to their example. >>> the heroes. we'll have the reaction from some of the brave souls who risked it all, including daniel hernandez, who sat beside the president tonight. >>> tragedy in tucson. as the country looks inward, a special edition of "nightline" begins right now. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city this is "nightline," january 12th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm bill weir. after five days of anguish and anger, tucson and really the whole nation was due for an emotional cleansing tonight. 25,000 people showed up at a college arena that seats half that many. among them some carrying flesh wounds. all of them scarred emotionally by saturday's murder spree. the heads of state and federal government were there. cabinet members, supreme court justices past and present. and the man who carried the biggest responsibility to the mode podium, barack obama. more than any da

grieving together with the families that lost their loved ones . and were expressing our solidarity with the russian people and the russian government that there can be no refuge for monsters or people carrying out an attack like. commemorative services have been held across the country with the president if it is and find minister peace in attending the child today uniting people of every faith. i could have lost my brother i want them to be punished. the reaction from the kremlin has been fierce president medvedev has vowed that those responsible will be held accountable and doesn't invest the gates has now worked to establish exactly who is behind the attack the fingers blame his also on the airports and the chance. to have been officials with more expected to come as the country looks to tyson its security defenses in the often most of the attack people have rallied dating blood at hospitals and ensuring the victims and their families receive all the help they need but admits the child has tried to stand united in its refusal to be intimidated

hearing is definitely the whole nation has grieving for the victims even though you official day of mourning was declared only in moscow and the moscow region is now. yes absolutely well it's in times like this one usually a country or a nation comes together and the russia is a multinational multi confessional country there being very church services being held in various churches and synagogues and mosques all across the country and of course especially in moscow and here at. one dead about their old will also be a commemorative service that's going to be held at the church that is located on the premises off the airport and in the chapel that's inside the airport as well of course people are also flocking to the scene to pay respects there laying flowers and grief so as close to the site of the monday's bombing as possible now you have to remember that that area has been cordoned off on monday and still hasn't been reopened only people arriving there can access it other than that everybody has to stay in the main building just in the departures area but still flowers and candles are being

but i just have to say that first of all for those who were killed, they leave behind grieving families. judge rolls' loss is going to be particularly important for the arizona judiciary. >> schieffer: i'm very glad that you did bring up those names. let me ask you this, senator. the sheriff of pima county blamed the "vitriolic political rhetoric" that has consumed the country. that is his phrase for this happening. do you feel that that was a part of this? >> first, i didn't really think that that had any part in a law enforcement briefing last night. it was speculation. i don't think we should rush to speculate. i thought that the report that we just saw from tucson seems to have it about right. we really don't know what motivated this young person, except to know that he was very mentally unstable, as was pointed out in the piece. it's probably giving him too much credit to ascribe a coherent political philosophy to him. we just have to acknowledge that there are mentally unstable people in this country. who knows what motivates them to do what they do? then they commit terrible crim

four days later, president clinton appealed to a grieving people. >> let us let our own children know that we will stand against the forces of fear. when there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it. when there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against it. in the face of death, let us honor life. >> lehrer: and then, a scant six years later, the attacks of september 11. that night, president bush evoked what he called the "steel of american resolve." >> our country is strong. a great people has been moved to defend a great nation. terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of america. >> lehrer: tonight will be the third time president obama has faced the nation at such a moment. in november 2009, he eulogized the 13 soldiers who were gunned down at fort hood, texas. and last april, in west virginia, he remembered the 29 men killed in the nation's worst coal mining disaster in 40 years. here now two of the "newshour's" regular historians: presidential historian michael beschloss and ellen fitzp

you say you're looking forward to having a private meeting with her parents to grieve together. what will that conversation be like? >> the conversations that i've had with john on the telephone, i've only spoken with john, we basically barely get started, and we both devolve into tears, excuse me. we're very fond of one another. roxana, the morning after this event, despite having to be at the lowest depths that a human could experience in this life took time to e-mail suzie and assure her of their love for our family, of their appreciation for the relationship that suzie and christina had forged and that we had all their best wishes for suzie's full recovery. they have demonstrated gracefulness that is extraordinary under the circumstances. we'll be bonded forever by this tragedy. i just feel the need to share with them. i can't imagine what they're going through, and i don't begin to predict what it's going to be like to get together. i feel the need to share grief with them. >> and does suzie talk about christina even though she's trying to heal physically? does she talk abo

can you help this grieving mother? it makes a lot of us deal embarrassed that she has to come up here time after time asking for help and nothing is done. i am wondering why my district supervisor continuously refuses to talk about that situation there. if i remember correctly, it is in district 7. secondly, the department of public health former head is gone. the former head of san francisco general hospital is gone and the former head of -- is gone. i think that you have enough leeway now to politically connected it the department of public health. how much are going to waste. the poor and needy need opportunities could of -- the poor and needy need opportunities. thank-you. >> good afternoon. i want to thank you for the consideration and support of the resolution declaring january 30th the day of civil liberties. i also would like to thank the board of education.

i was surprised at how deeply i grieved. even more so than my dad. it is still going on. we had 50 something years together. we had great years. great movies, great poetry. she just had so much to do with the woman i became. >> i know you would not wish it on anybody, maybe not even your worst enemy. >> not even my worst enemy. although -- wait a minute. [laughter] tavis: that said, what is the abiding circumstance you take away for having been so close to it? >> it is very trite, but when people say to try to make every day count, it is so serious, and it is hard to do that common -- hard to do that, because you get caught up in living, but sometimes it is not about you. even though this happened to me and i went through a lot, sometimes i felt the struggle was not about me. it was about showing what it is like to be used. i felt like i was being used, and i wanted to get out of this. >> like any gain natalie or like any good evening nat king cole lyric, it was not corning. the new book is called "love brought me back." if you are in l.a. on december 8 and you can get a

. >> friends and family are grieving the death of bory. he was found dead inside his home. police are call it a homicide. he had not been seen for a couple of days. family members found his home and unlocked and called police who discovered his body on wednesday. he was a former school board member. terisa estacio, kron 4 news. >> reporter: the sheriffs said they are getting discouraged after finding nothing that is leading them closer to finding juliani cardenas. crews have been searching a canal for juliani cardenas and his abductor. a witness saw a car enter the water so all clues are leading the sheriff's to believe that that car is in this canal but they haven't found it yet. on wednesday they pulled several other vehicles out of the water but not the car they are looking for. kate thompson, kron 4 news. >>> we have a couple big weather stories. tomorrow morning it will be dense fog again. the advisory has been extended to the north and includes the delta and fairfield tomorrow. visibilities will be really bad out there. 500 feet at times. this fog will last through th

together we thrive, tucson and america, will be an opportunity to grieve and it will be a demonstration of our strength. strength in community. a strength in community that was demonstrated last saturday, a strength in community there that is ongoing. tucson demonstrated its strength on saturday when the city was full of heroes, ordinary citizens, victims, first responders coming together in the spirit of community. madam speaker, our colleague, congresswoman giffords, was the primary target of cowardly act, and as she recovers, we honor her as a brilliant and courageous member of congress. she brought to congress an invigoration, thinking of new generation of national leaders. a businesswoman, state legislator, she came to congress full of ideas, and we will long continue to be blessed by them, look forward to when she is present with us on the floor. she has spoken out courageously and led boldly when the times demanded it. it's especially tragic that those who lost their lives and those who were wounded had come together as the resolution presents to participate in an activity that r

who are attending the memorials, those families of those who died are protected so that they can grieve in peace and every member of this body agreed and it sailed right out of here and it's on the governor's desk. she might have even signed it already. >> by the way, what people might not know is you've been close to the giffords family, her astronaut husband and of course the whole family itself have counted on you to be with them through this terrible tragedy as congresswoman giffords fights for her life. i don't know how recently you've been in contact with the family, her happens you could update -- perhaps you could update us on how she is doing and how those who are being mourned and those that have been wounded from the governor 's -- i mean, from the congresswoman's staff, a little bit about the personal side of this story and your relationship with the family, please. >> it's been a very tough time for a whole lot of people. and i think that that counts everybody in the tucson area, the entire southern arizona, we really consider ourselves to be part of gabby's family. and the

unintelligible] in america when the president was called upon to sooth a greedy nation -- soothe a grievingion. >> let us remember a single lack of civility did not cause this country, but only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to the challenges of our nation in a way that would make them proud. [applause] >> i have been talking to the former director of communications for tony blair. and a former speech writer for george w. bush. in new york, the director of theking speech. >> it is right to remember -- mentioned dr. martin luther king and president obama in the same speech about oratory? >> it will probably not resonate in the chambers of history. i think king is the benchmark, but where they are different from what most political professionals do is those are set piece features in an era where most political communication is more informal. i don't think we give a sound bite enough respect. any modern person would have to listen to take someone take five hours to present a budget, they would not go through it. it was a different era. >> this is the era of sound

00, what has prompted so many people here in the bay area and around the nation to find a need to grievellectively. that story is coming up. good night.

it is a very passionate debate, but give reasonable time for the committee and the grieving families of loved ones who have been killed by law enforcement to be -- a vital part of the process when it comes to the priorities. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> if we can now move to line item number six. >> it is public comment on all matters pertaining to item 8 and public comment on whether to go into closed session. >> i would like to point out something regarding this matter. you have come into session every night for about an hour, hour and a half, maybe two hours and you're open to the public and then you go into closed session, two, three, four hours and i don't think it is unfair to really look at your priorities and say well, it looks to me as a member of the public that your priority is being a judicial body and hearing complaints against police department and you spend more time, in fact, i would say the majority of your time, hearing those cases and dealing with those cases than you do everything else combined and i think that is problem and i think it is also a concern becaus

as the nation grieves, president obama assumes the role of mourner in chief. like president clinton after the oklahoma city bombing. he hopes to help the horrified country heal from the tragedy. he's reportedly been working on his speech since monday and will use the opportunity at a memorial service tonight to focus on the victims and call for national unity. >> he has to give a lovely, passionate memorial statement. eulogy of grief, of hope perhaps for the future. but it's not a political speech. >> reporter: san francisco congresswoman and house speaker -- excuse me former house speaker nancy pelosi made a visit to gabrielle giffords office yesterday, will be among the dignitaries joining president obama at tonight's memorial service in tucson. meanwhile, here in d.c. members of congress will be leading their own tributes. i'll have more on that during my next update in about an hour. for now we're live in washington d.c., allison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> well, a new poll shows americans are feeling better about how president obama and congressional

. >> there are families mourning and we mourn with those who mourn, we grieve with those who grieve. >> reporter: palin was first linked to wounded congresswoman gabby giffords because palin used a map that targeted giffords district with crosshairs during the last campaign. palin said democrats used the same imagery and critics were wrong to draw a connection to the suspect. >> it came up that, oh, this must be a cause of the shooter that perhaps he saw the map and that incited him to violence which is, of course, ridiculous. >> reporter: palin attracted more controversy last week with her video statement by using a term with a painful history that accused jews of human sacrifice. >> journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel. >> reporter: critics said she didn't know what it meant. >> i don't know how they would know whether i did or didn't know the term blood libel. >> reporter: palin said the phrase describes the blame came toward conservatives. >> blood libel means being falsely accused of having blood on your hands. in this case that's exactly what was going o

congresswoman's has been is in the audience along with many other dignitaries and regular folks who came and grieve and mourn together and also on of the lives of those who have suffered from this tragic incident on saturday. also in the bay area in oakland a candlelight vigil tonight will begin, be held for congresswoman gabbro gifford and the victims of saturday's shooting in tucson. local groups including the east bay young democrats will hold that vigil in the area looking at now. this downtown oakland outside of city hall. the group said the purpose of the candlelight vigil is to condemn political violence and violence in the local community. just to remind you we will continue to cover the arizona shootings and the aftermath right here on kron 4 news and on line at www.kron4.com. >> developing is to tell you about now, at cal train conductor has been arrested or cargo is accused of using his job of checking passenger tickets to take victims to secluded sections of the train where the alleged inappropriate behavior occurred. as kron 4 has the reports were the victims was under age 18. >> amtra

it's the same thing for a city grieving together. people came to the hospital and laid out flowers. there was other places they've done that. each time we cover these things, we see people want some unifying moment which they can express their feelings, but also find something good out of this. that's why tonight you are going to see a lot of talk about the people who did -- ordinary people who did amazing things that day. whether it was cpr or just coming to the aid of other wounded people. >> and we want to give everybody an update on the condition of congresswoman gabrielle giffords, who is recovering from about as serious a head wound as you can get, a bullet that passed through her skull. the breathing tube has been taken out. they've reduced the amount of sedatives they are giving her so they can see more organically how she's coming to, how she's recovering. she's using grip strength and some hand gestures. she has the use of both of her limbs. yesterday, what may sound minor, she scratched her nose in the neurologic treatment community, that's a big deal because of the signa

so we rise to mourn with those who mourn to grieve with those who grieve. we cannot fail to be moved by the tragic events in arizona. we must not fail to pray earnestly for all those affected and we will not fail to defend our freedom lest it be one more victim of the horrific events in tucson on saturday last. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from arizona. mr. pastor: i yield go minutes to the gentleman from new york. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. >> the outpouring of support from every corner for the victims of the attack in tucson has been overwhelming and inspiring. it is on behalf of western new york that i offer our prayers on behalf of my friend and colleague, gabby giffords, and my sympathy to the family and friends of gabe zimmerman, dor -- judge roll, dorothy murray. some say it is violence-themed rhetoric that added to this attack. undoubtedly, our debate could benefit from more light and less heat. but this attack was scarried out by a man who appear tors mentally ill

in phoenix, arizona governor jan brewer pronounced her state grieving but strong. she appealed for unity in her annual state of the state address. she praised the young intern who replied pressure to giffords' head wounds soon after the shooting. the young man used his bare hands on a spot where a bullet entered her head and applied pressure to stem blood loss. >> daniel hernandez a university of arizona junior showed no fear in the face of gun fire. his quick action in going to gabby giffords' aid likely saved her life. daniel is here today, and i'm going to ask him to stand and receive the thanks of a very grateful state. daniel. ( applause ) arizona is in pain. yes, our grief is profound. we are yet in the first hours of our sorrow. but we have not been brought down. we will never be brought down. ( applause ) >> reporter: in washington president obama led the nation in a moment of silence to remember the victims. down pennsylvania avenue members of congress and staff filled the steps of the capitol, and at the supreme court justices paused between arguments on

the teen's grieving family has no answers. just a bullet torn jacket worn by their son. the fbi, who is handling this investigation, wouldn't talk to us on camera, but they tell nbc news border patrol agents were in this area wednesday morning trying to apprehend a drug smuggler. that's when they say a group of teenagers began throwing rocks and an agent fired his gun. the incident game along a stretch of border where tensions run high. in december, border patrol agent brian terry was killed in a shootout with bandits. he was 40 years old. this cell phone video captures another fatal shooting near el paso, texas. the border patrol says a 15-year-old was throwing rocks at agents. he was shot in the head. >> when you pick up a rock and throw it at a police officer, you should expect to have deadly force directed back toward you. >> reporter: many americans who live in border cities used to feel safe, but no more. violence from last year's $10 billion drug trade claimed hundreds of lives in cities by the fence. rancher tom mitchell says illegal crossings are a way of life h

as so often happens in these cases of focused national attention and grieving, it fell to the presidentf the united states to weave those themes together. >> rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let's use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together. gwen: president obama's appeal to the moral imagination won praise across the political spectrum. in an opinion piece posted today in "the washington post, arizona republican senator john mccain called it a terrific speech. "we are americans and fellow human beings," he wrote. "and that shared distinction is so much more important than the disputes that invigorate our noisy, rough-and-tumble political culture. that is what i heard the president say on wednesday evening. i commend and thank him for it. so, dan, with statements like that and after a week like this, dowsdb does this mean we've reached a moment of grand national comity? >> i think we've hit the pause button